{"id":167580,"date":"2023-07-14T22:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T03:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-develop-new-marker-for-cancer-cell-motility"},"modified":"2023-07-14T22:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T03:23:16","slug":"researchers-develop-new-marker-for-cancer-cell-motility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-develop-new-marker-for-cancer-cell-motility","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop new marker for cancer cell motility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-new-marker-for-cancer-cell-motility2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers led by Leipzig University have found a application in oncology for the scientific field of Physics of Cancer. This is a milestone for the new research field, proving its clinical relevance for the first time. Based on tissue and cell mechanics and using machine learning, the team developed a marker for cancer cell motility in digital pathology.<\/p>\n<p>The marker delivers new information about breast tumors that will improve the ability to predict the risk of metastasis, even after a decade has passed. The researchers have just published their new findings in the journal Physical Review X.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/retrospective+study\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">retrospective study<\/a> of 1,380 female <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/breast+cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">breast cancer<\/a> patients, conducted in close collaboration with Professor Axel Niendorf from the Pathologie Hamburg-West institute, doctoral researcher Pablo Gottheil from the research group led by Professor Josef Alfons K\u00e4s at Leipzig University found that a collective transition of cancer cells to motility, known in specialist circles as \u201cunjamming,\u201d significantly increases the risk of distant metastases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers led by Leipzig University have found a application in oncology for the scientific field of Physics of Cancer. This is a milestone for the new research field, proving its clinical relevance for the first time. Based on tissue and cell mechanics and using machine learning, the team developed a marker for cancer cell motility [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}